ArticleCurrent research in microbial sciences2025
Microbial dark matter spearheading the biogeochemical cycle in the Solar Lake of Taba, Egypt.
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Abstract
Microbial dark matter (MDM) represents a vast, uncultured fraction of microbial life with largely unknown ecological roles, particularly in extreme environments. This study investigates MDM in the hypersaline microbial mats of Solar Lake, Taba, Egypt, using shotgun metagenomics (∼70 M reads/sample; triplicate sampling across four sites). A total of 364 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) were recovered, of which 116 (∼30 %) were classified as MDM, comprising 55 % archaeal and 45 % bacterial lineages. Functional annotation revealed that ∼14 % of the MDM MAGs had the genetic potential to fix carbon. The genetic makeup of
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